On Decemter 5th 2008 Beat and I did our dress rehersal in pleasant anticipation of our concert to happen seven days later; and you can imagine how we did it: we built up all our toys and just played on a gut level – as we intended to do in concert.
Beat Föllmi: Drums, Gongs, Percussion
Rochus Keller: Grand Piano, Organ, Synthesizers, Sylophon, Vocoder, Bass...

Beat got an old upright piano from somewhere; we then prepared the strings with different materials so it made interesting percussive sounds; of course we didn’t invent the concept of the Prepared Piano, but we had a lot of fun anyway. Check yourself.
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Session on November 30th...

Sequencer Multitrack Improvisation (i.e. I just played; for the imrovised pieces just what came to my mind)
Rochus Keller: Composition & Arrangement (I played all instruments myself)
I’m pleased to introduce my new toy. This is a long waited device finally able to play a whole production out of one tiny box. It has 16 channels, eight of which equiped with great...

This is a recording of a quite unique event. The trio Föllmi-Gamma-Keller, extended by Christian Simmen, was invited by the Brass Band Uri for a double concert themed “ImBBrovisation” (improvisation). The concerts took place on March 8th and 9th 2002 in the venerable and sold out Tellspielhaus Altdorf. The recording is an excerpt of the second evening on...

Live Improvisation at the Percussion Atelier. This is the first official recording by Beat and me as a duo project, and also the first time I used the bass pedals.
Beat Föllmi: Drums, Percussion, Voice
Rochus Keller: Piano, Synthesizers, Bass pedals
And here’s the music: Track 1, Track 2, Track 3, Track 4, Track 5, Track 6, Track 7, Track 8, Track 9, Track 10,...

Real Time Composition.
Live stereo recording on January 29th 1998 at Rony’s home in Schwyz.
Rony Bruhin: Bass
Nori “Nippi” Rickenbacher: Drums
Rochus Keller: E-Piano, Piano, Synthesizer
We recorded direcly from the mixing desk. Also the bass was connected as a line signal. The drums had some mics, one of those unfortunately was a bit too close to the...